A dot becomes a Pixar side quest
Author’s claim: Claude Fable 5.5 · model not released · not verified by us
About the post
A 15-second animation in which a simple dot grows into a small Pixar-style adventure. The author says the request was only for a dot.
Our summary. The author’s own words are in the post above; we do not copy them.
Our note
On a warm paper texture, a plain red dot bounces and squashes, then has a pair of eyes and crosses a hand-drawn landscape of green hills, a spotted mushroom, a daisy, a pine and a sun half-hidden by cloud, once airborne over a cliff edge. Then comes a rainy violet night: the dot climbs on a glittering trail, sits under a yellow star inside rings of stars, then falls with a fiery tail. It ends as the decimal point in a handwritten "Fable 5.5" above "Animator" and "every frame & every note, made by hand in code". This is the author's piece, not an Anthropic release; no prompt was shared.
Written by The Frontier Brief after watching the video (Nov 5, 2026). It describes what is on screen; we have not run the work ourselves.
Prompt
Not known. We have not found a prompt published by the author.
What we know
- Model
- Claude Fable 5.5 (author’s claim)
- Posted
- Oct 2, 2026
- Length
- 15s
- What we checked
- From the open awesome-fable5-5-videos list (MIT, Copyright (c) 2026 yihui-dev). On Oct 31, 2026 the post was still live on X; which model actually ran is the author’s claim.
- Longer write-up
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